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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs

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